[PATCH 1/9] powerpc: Fix msr setting in 32 bit signal code
Kumar Gala
galak at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jun 20 16:35:50 EST 2008
On Jun 19, 2008, at 11:13 PM, Michael Neuling wrote:
> If we set the SPE MSR bit in save_user_regs we can blow away the VEC
> bit. This will never happen in reality (VMX and SPE will never be in
> the same processor as their opcodes overlap), but it looks bad. Also
> when we add VSX here in a later patch, we can hit two of these at the
> same time.
Also, MSR_SPE and MSR_VEC are the same bit. So we'd never clobber
anything.
- k
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